Big things to come

May 17, 2010

If you've been busy playing the likes of the Halo Reach beta, Skate 3 and Lost Planet 2, your credit card might be a little disturbed to hear that the next seven days is another big week for game releases.

Alan Wake finally arrives to thrill us on Thursday, and if I recall correctly, as does Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.

ModNation Racers will also be out of the pits and on the starting grid come Thursday.

Meanwhile, Red Dead Redemption casually rides into town on Friday.

The pressure will be on to finish them off quickly, too, as Alpha Protocol will follow next week.

What have you been playing lately?

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owza

May 17, 2010

08:16 AM

PLayed the last couple of chapters and finally finished Heavy Rain. It would be nice to have a crack a new ending but, I just don't feel its worth the time sink. Although I am a little peeved 1 little slip at the very end meant one charachter died even though I got the sequence perfect until the very last move.

Other than that, played some Virtua Tennis 3.

Also played the updated flight control level. Now with Wind! Its quite frustrating have all your red planes lined to land, wind changes, then you have to scramble to land them and the new planes entering the screen. good fun though.

That is about all, and bought peggle for iphone....

Actually I discoverd the iphone makes dress shopping with the Mrs a far less painful experience. Although fist pumping in the middle of sportsgirl cos you passed a particularily frustrating level of angry birds is a touch embarassing when you realise where you are.

Leigh

May 17, 2010

08:22 AM

Some Steam-y Portal-on-Macbook action.

Have you come across this game, it is truly something!

Joka

May 17, 2010

08:28 AM

Big Red is on my radar this week. I've got a few days to scramble some game system to get a cheap pre-order either from JB or Game.

I played Portal on my Mac (yay Steam and freebies!) and quite enjoyed it. I'm stuck on one puzzle at the moment, but I know I just have to get used to the portal system.

I've been wanting to get into Bioshock more but who knows when that will be.

barrymoves

May 17, 2010

08:35 AM

I'm pretty sure I'm not actually interested in Red Dead. I don't get how it will be fun, plus I don't have the time to devote to it, and I've already got MW2 and Orange Box coming in the mail.

Errr, played some BC2 on Friday night, twas good. I'm very much looking forward to the eventual release of the recently mentioned Onslaught game mode.

Finally started playing Halo Wars yesterday - I bought the game about 2 months ago but never got the chance to put it in (what with Bold Errands going on) - I'm really loving it so far. I quite like the Halo universe :)

Mongey

May 17, 2010

08:45 AM

skate 3 for me the last week. Been enjoying. Its more of the same but if happen to love the same (like me ) then its a good thing

Yeah I'd say I'll be picking up red dead on friday . Got some JB credit for my birthday and after seeing the 1st reviews around over weekend I think the hype is going to be too much .It looks a great game

sio with SSF4 , skate 3 and RDR I have far too many games and not enough time to play

death to nerds

May 17, 2010

08:53 AM

And me without a console for the next 6 weeks.

:(

ArghZombies

May 17, 2010

09:03 AM

Back to Borderlands - I haven't played it much since i finished it about 3 or so months ago but quickly remember why i liked it so much.

Also just started Valkyra Chronicles, but haven't played very far into it at all. First impressions is that is has an excellent art style and likable characters, but a lot of dialog and a strange mix of turnbased and realtime combat

Dark Wolfe

May 17, 2010

09:10 AM

Monster Hunter Tri. Finally unlocked long swords (love fast weapons but hate the sword and shield for some reason) and have one more piece of the Gobul.

Trying out Neptune's Pride as we speak, no clue how trade works, but I don't have enough cash for another 2 hours anyway.

Oh and re-playing every fighting game I own (sans X-box for now) with the fighting stick I've made. Is sweet. Is very sweet

singo the dingo

May 17, 2010

09:21 AM

Dipped back into Dead Rising after reading about Dead Rising 2 - lawnmowering swathes of zombies still has a certain appeal. Some achievement whoring in The Club - great for $9, not sure I'd pay more than $20 though.

Still dipping in to Angry Birds, even after 3 starring the whole thing - now that's some good compulsive game design right there.

Red Dead does look appealing - be interesting to see how the multiplayer goes.

Angry_Los_Ganados

May 17, 2010

09:22 AM

Friday cant come soon enough ....... i have read a couple of reviews for Red Dead and the game is receiving really REALLY high scores.

ajm

May 17, 2010

09:27 AM

Got the band back together last night. Just like old times (or old timers, forget which).

Also gave Crackdown a good go. Can't believe I didn't get into this earlier. Mac users aren't the only ones living on the blunter edge of gaming.

luverly_5pam

May 17, 2010

09:37 AM

No new games for me, my to-play pile has reached a critical mass, so I need to minimise it as much as possible.

Continued with Lego Batman, replaying the game in free play mode to polish of the last few achievements, 1 more weekend and I'll be shot of it.

Also played some Borderlands, played through Zombie Island of Dr Ned after picking it up in the deal of the week a fortnight ago. I think I'll put Borderlands down for a little bit, I've been playing it for almost 5 months straight now, need to try something different!

Nicolai

May 17, 2010

09:39 AM

My Monster Hunter obsession continues, having really got to the business end of Offline Mode, I've started a little Online to see how far I can solo. I've been quite surprised by how much more it takes to down a Monster online and how much more damage the little adds throw at you.

I look forward to the opportunity to play with other people, but am happy enough on my own.

@ArghZombies
I really enjoyed how even with a large cast of characters in Valkyria Chronicles, they're all different. Good luck with making sure you have Cover when you need it, there are a couple of sudden difficulty jumps, which keeps the game challenging.

luverly_5pam

May 17, 2010

09:50 AM

Oh, and I am still running my poll to find out the greatest video game franchises of all time as voted by the Screen Play readership. To participate you need to:
- create a ranked top ten list of your personal top ten favourite video game franchises
- email your top ten to screenplayvote@gmail.com
- await the results in a forthcoming Your Turn article

Please note, I am looking for your own personal top ten favourites, as opposed to the top ten most important/influential etc.
To count as a franchise, there must have been more than 1 game released in a series. Expansions do not count.
I will keep the polls open until this Thursday.
Disclaimers: I will not send you any spam emails, or share your email details with any other third party. I'm 5pam by name, not by nature. I also promise to only post one reminder post a day so that you don't all get sick of me this week.
Thanks to those who have responded already!
-luverly_5pam gets 999999 responses to do MAX DAMAGE to the Guinness Book of Records list. The poll is good. It has been endorsed by the security code.

ArghZombies

May 17, 2010

09:53 AM

@Nicolai
Thanks for the advice - never in my life have i had to restart the first (non-training) mission twice! bloody tank knocks down my cover, shoots me with the main cannon and machine gun finishes me off as i try to run for cover :(
Will keep trying though - its a fun game despite all this

Jason Hill

May 17, 2010

10:29 AM

Nintendo just announced the release date for another big upcoming game. Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be released in Australia on July 1.

stubbo

May 17, 2010

10:32 AM

I finished Portal and then buried a good 5-6 hrs into Half Life 2. Just finishing off the water buggy sequence, and to start with I found the game frustrating, with Portal being far more addictive off the bat. However, now that I am into Half Life, geez, the pace of this game is frenetic, and not knowing what is going on is really good, drip feeding the information into the story, I wish I could justify a sicky to play it...

Last time I felt like this about a game was Bioshock, but I think that Half Life is better...

tehkellays

May 17, 2010

11:23 AM

Spent most of the weekend backing up and reformatting my PC, and playing a little DS in-between.

Also picked up some Singstar mics for cheap at JB in the hope that they'd work with Guitar Hero (ps2), but alas they do not. Guess I'll be asking for SingStar games for my upcoming birthday!

I really like the look of ModNation Racers, so sad that's it's not coming to XBOX.

Lith

May 17, 2010

11:27 AM

I got my new PC up and running towards the end of last week. I've been back into Dragon Age, I've clocked up about 55 hours now, and playing a lot of Splinter Cell: Conviction. It's a damn good game, despite being a pretty huge departure in parts from the tone of the previous games. I've yet to play the coop, which is by all accounts one of the highlights. Looking forward to it.

I'm praying for a PC release of Red Dead - it's the type of title that I'm an absolute sucker for. Why aren't there more triple-A western games? I'd love to see a few more titles set in that time period. The weapons are great, the personalities are huge - it's ideal.

Infinitum

May 17, 2010

11:50 AM

Just finished Lost Odyssey, now I might try to knock over Heavy Rain or Ballad of Gay Tony while I wait for BC2 (thanks barry) and Alan Wake to arrive in the mail.

Haggis McHaggis

May 17, 2010

11:56 AM

Opened up my copy of Mass Effect 2 only to discover that the Cerberus Network activation code was not printed on the card! Got one from the shop I bought it at, and was unable to resist having a taster play of it. I'm liking it, but have decided to hold off onplaying until I finish getting Shepard from ME1 up to level 60, and then will import him. Also some more Neverwinter Nights at my parents' place.

I hope Bioware incorporate the DLC system from Dragon Age into ME3. Individual downloads of the executables is annoying compared to the seamless system in DA. If they just tweak it a little further to automatically download patches, it would be perfect.

Anthony the Gourmet Gamer

May 17, 2010

11:58 AM

I've finally joined the Borderlands world. Been playing on and off for the past 2 weeks. The timing was certainly right as I've completely quit playing WoW. It does feel like I've moved from crack to methadone though.

So far have a level 31 Snipe-spec hunter... except thanks to an OP shotgun drop, snipes as much with the shotgun as the flambe-causing sniper rifle.

Lucid Fugue

May 17, 2010

12:18 PM

Got in a few hours of Anno 1701 expansion, which had gone untouched since I was just playing the original previously. It's about the only game I can stand to play whilst the computer doesn't have a solid surface for mouse + keyboard.
I'm also waiting on a new TV before i can get back into console gaming, so it has been a very game-less month for me.

I remember loving the original RDR, but I'll be playing catch up for a while so I might wait till this one hits bargain bins.

Checked out some gameplay videos for APB as well, which I've been keeping an eye on. It's not shaping up quite how I pictured it, but it does look like good fun. The one thing that keeps me away from MMOs is the time requirement, but APB at least looks like its able to handle short bursts of gameplay rather than hours long instance commitments.

Dark Wolfe

May 17, 2010

01:51 PM

@ Nicolai:
You may have noticed this, but in Monster Hunter, the bigger it is, the harder it is. just an extra metre on the size of two otherwise identical monsters an really change the difficulty. Also, although it is still randomised, in general online are significantly larger, designed for 4 people to still need to look out. Now, how do I find you online?

Joka

May 17, 2010

01:56 PM

Bah it seems as though no one has RDR LE anymore so no bonus stuff (I wanted the soundtrack!). Might just have to get the normal game and look for the soundtrack on eBay. It probably won't matter too much anyway with the bonus stuff, it's just a game.

Game(where I am anyway) are apparently offering a 1500 MS game card and the Golden Guns pack with the normal edition.

Misty

May 17, 2010

03:21 PM

I've been playing Pokemon SoulSilver, Monster Hunter Tri, and Diablo II. The most addictive of which is definitely Monster Hunter. I like to gather and hoard resources, and this completes my completionist/OCD tendencies with the quest lists and armour upgrades.

Oh and I've given up on catching ALL the pokemon already. There are just too many to make it worth the grind.

Felix

May 17, 2010

03:44 PM

I know I'm going to get a virtual flogging for this, but I'm trading in Borderlands for Red Dead Redemption. As much as the style and tone (and the artwork) of Bold Errands pleases me, I'm more of a true open-world guy. So guns and horsies for me, then.

Oh, and also pummelling my way through Ultimate Alliance 2 so I can chuck that in for the trade as well.

death to nerds

May 17, 2010

03:52 PM

I've been playing The Saboteur (obviously)

barrymoves

May 17, 2010

04:46 PM

@ Felix

How could you? *sad face*

By the time I am ready for a new game, Crackdown 2 will just about be here. That is win.

Otherwise if RDR turns out to be good I may pick it up later at some insanely stupid price from overseas (like I did with COD MW2 for GBP 19)... Still I am very sceptical of RDR given the fact that GTAIV was basically a steaming pile c.f. its predecessors yet it still reviewed (very) strongly.

N3mrak

May 18, 2010

12:43 PM

@barrymoves
"given the fact that GTAIV was basically a steaming pile c.f. its predecessors yet it still reviewed (very) strongly."

Get out of here sir, you are no longer welcome!!

Just pre ordered my copy of RDR. Reading all these comments got me worked up! Dam you all!!!

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